Dentistry inventions 06/06

20060141415 - Intra-oral mirrors: Mirrors for viewing and/or photographing occlusal, buccal, and lingual views of a patient's teeth are described. In an exemplary embodiment, a mirror comprises a first lobe providing an imaging surface during use. The first lobe has a reflective surface for reflecting a photo-quality image of the patient's teeth in the...

20060141416 - Occlusal indicator tray & processes therefor: Material and methods for constructing custom dental trays quickly and inexpensively, especially dental trays which are useful for the detection, evaluation, and treatment of mandibular parafunction. A manufactured dental tray material includes occlusal pressure indicators, and can include electronics for storing and analyzing occlusal pressures....

20060141417 - Method for making surgical guiding sleeves components for a surgical template: Current dental implant guide sleeve systems for orienting a drill bit in the pre-determined location and angulation for making an implant osteotomy in the recipient's mouth are complicated and/or require multiple custom-made surgical templates in order to accommodate different osteotomy drills' diameters. The novel “thread-lock” invention system is based on...

20060141418 - Method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, abutment and implant for a screw-cement retained prosthesis: A method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis, an abutment and an implant are disclosed. The method for treating the screw-cement retained prosthesis, which relates to an internal implant, comprises the steps of providing an abutment comprising a joining projection, repositioning the joining projection to a joining groove formed in...

20060141419 - Method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis and adjustment for a screw-cement retained prosthesis: A method for treating a screw-cement retained prosthesis and an abutment are disclosed. The method for treating the screw-cement retained prosthesis comprises the steps of implanting a fixture in an alveolar bone; engaging an abutment including a first screw hole to the fixture using a screw; providing a prosthetic appliance...

20060141420 - Notched pontic and system for fabricating dental appliance for use therewith: A pontic (10) having a prefabricated notch, channel or slot (11) to physically engage and ensure a secure mechanical lock with the dental appliance (30). The invention also pertains to a method of fabricating a dental appliance (30) and a kit for facilitating the same. The invention has particular application...

20060141422 - Method and apparatus for tooth whitening: Preconditioning mouth rinse, which pre-treats the teeth to better receive a whitening formula containing a photosensitive compound, and a hand-held consumer light source for tooth whitening, which provides rapid tooth whitening, are disclosed. The light source may use a specific range of visible light and also emit heat sufficient to...

20060141423 - Method for whitening teeth: Tooth whitening compound includes a whitener and a carrier selected for adhering the carrier and whitening composition to a user's teeth. The whitening compound may be applied by the method including painting, washing, sponging, coating, daubing, spraying, wiping, rubbing, and by any movement relative to a horizontal or vertical axis...

20060141421 - System and method for detecting substances related to oral health: The present invention relates to a low cost and portable system and method for detecting substances related to oral health. In one example embodiment, the system includes a sensor that is incorporated into an oral healthcare device (e.g., a toothbrush). The sensor detects bacterial and/or chemical levels that are within...

20060134576 - Dental illumination device with single or multiple total internal reflectors (tir): The present invention relates generally to a device that attaches to one or more Light Emitting Diode (LED) light source(s) to transmit and distribute light energy simultaneously across the arches of upper and lower teeth for dental tooth whitening and photo initiation of light curing resins while at the same...

20060134577 - Dental polymerization light transmission instrument: A dental polymerization light transmission instrument is described for the use in simplifying the cementation of indirect cosmetic dental restorations that are secured into position with light cured composite cement. The invention teaches a method where light derived from dental light units utilizing standard curing tips may be directed through...

20060134578 - Medical treatment device: The invention concerns a medical treatment device comprising a pedal driven control unit (20) and a handpiece (30) designed for a medical instrument, said handpiece being adapted to be controlled via said pedal-driven control unit. Said handpiece comprises monitoring devices (32, 33, 34, 35) for controlling data for operating the...

20060134579 - Clamping cord with polymeric wedge component, and method of affixation: The present invention relates to the affixation of dental dams and Class III matrixes utilized in conservative dentistry and oral surgery. In particular, the present invention relates to a device and method for retaining and stabilizing a dental dam or Class III matrix, or other device, in the mouth of...

20060134581 - Automatic crown and gingiva detection from three-dimensional virtual model of teeth: A method is provided for automatically separating tooth crowns and gingival tissue in a virtual three-dimensional model of teeth and associated anatomical structures. The method orients the model with reference to a plane and automatically determines local maxima of the model and areas bounded by the local maxima. The method...

20060134580 - Rfid tracking of patient-specific orthodontic materials: Techniques are described for using radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to track patient-specific materials throughout the manufacturing of indirect bonding trays. A series of RFID tags may be used to track the patient-specific material starting with the taking of a patient's impression at a clinic within a dental impression tray, through...

20060127834 - Orthodontic kits and methods: An orthodontic kit includes brackets and at least one archwire for a single patient. The brackets and archwire are provided in a sealed container that is sterilized after the container is closed. Optionally, the kit includes all or at least some of the additional orthodontic articles desired for a bonding...

20060127835 - Hand instrument for detaching orthodontic brackets from teeth: A hand instrument for debonding an adhesively bonded orthodontic bracket from a patient's tooth includes two jaws, each of which includes a contact pad for engaging opposite sides of the bracket. When the jaws are moved together, at least a majority of the area of each contact pad that contacts...

20060127836 - Tooth movement tracking system: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining movement of a tooth model from a first position to a second position by identifying one or more common features on the tooth model; detecting the position of the common features on the tooth model at the first position; detecting the position of...

20060127837 - Dental bleaching using regenerative ionophoresis: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique for dental bleaching. A tray covers teeth of a user and has a reservoir. A conductor is placed inside the tray. The conductor is covered by a bleaching agent when the bleaching agent fills the reservoir. The conductor is electrically connected...

20060127838 - System and methods for casting physical tooth model: A casting chamber for casting a physical tooth model representing a patient's tooth includes a chamber body and a lid. The chamber body includes a cavity adapted to hold a negative impression of the patient's tooth and to receive a cast material, wherein the negative impression and the chamber body...

20060127839 - Dental device for recording the position of the jaws of a patient in relation to one another by means of recording plates: The invention comprises a pair of one-piece, flat recording plates that are mirror symmetric about a sagittal plane S, or which an upper part (200), which is provided with a stylus (202), can be affixed to the upper jaw of the patient, and a lower part (100), which is provided...

20060127840 - Dental treatment unit with measuring device and three-dimensional measuring device: A dental treatment unit including at least one mechanical connection for a three-dimensional measuring device for the measurement of teeth, treatment situations and tooth models. The three-dimensional measuring device and the dental treatment unit may be connected to each other by way of means for the exchange of data and/or...

20060127841 - Insertion element for a medical handpiece head: An insertion element that can be inserted into a medical handpiece head and can receive at least one spray medium. The insertion element comprises a bearing seat for a bearing and a lateral surface. The lateral surface has at least one ring groove which is connectable to a media line...

20060127842 - Integrated dental equipment: An integrated dental system (10) includes a power connector base (11) having a plurality of electrical connectors (30) and a plurality of foot pedal connectors (31). A plurality of handpieces (12) are connected via their standard control units (20) to both the electrical connectors (30) and the foot pedal connectors...

20060127843 - Endodontic instruments: The present invention provides an improved endodontic instrument. The instrument can be constructed of a ribbon of material such as any material that has a suitable edge for cutting and can be twisted or bent into any desired shape. The ribbon can be made of a metal, a polymeric film...

20060127844 - Dental device and method of use: A prophy device incorporating a shaft and one or more corrugated members which eliminate the need for plastic gears of the prior art is disclosed. The corrugated members effectively transfer rotational energy from a shaft to an applicator. In another version, a flexible paste chamber contains polish within a housing...

20060127845 - Interproximal dental tool: The present invention relates to a hand held interproximal dental tool for detaching unwanted materials from a patient's teeth and to methods of manufacturing such tools. The interproximal dental tool includes a compact, ergonomically designed housing which is gripped by a dental practitioner during use and a blade extending from...

20060127846 - Dental appliance and method for positioning and holding inlays and onlays during bonding and cementation process: A dental appliance that includes a handle and a head with opposite first and second ends. The first end of the head is attached to the handle. A gripper has a first end attached to the second end of the head. The gripper includes a flexible material contoured such that...

20060127847 - Ceramic instrument: The present invention relates to a rotating instrument made of a ceramic material and comprising a shaft 1 and a working member 2 which is secured to the shaft or can detachably be secured thereto, wherein at least part of the working member 2 is made from a ceramic material,...

20060127848 - Artificial tooth root implantation position determining instrument, artificial tooth root implantation position determining method, guide member manufacturing device, sensor, drill, artificial tooth manufacturing device, computer program, and recorded med: Dentition three-dimensional data and jaw-bone three-dimensional data are collected from a patient and they are combined. According to the combined data, dental crown data for making up for data on a lost tooth and occlusion data on a dental crown represented by the dental crown data are created. When an...

20060127849 - Dental implant system: A dental implant system comprising an implant body for installing into a drilled bore or a prepared recent post extraction socket in the bone of a patient, wherein the implant body has a frustoconical head having a nut-shaped outer contour for fit-receiving a wrench for installing the implant into a...

20060127856 - Accurately predicting and preventing interference between tooth models: Systems and methods for preventing interference between two physical tooth models in a physical dental arch model includes digitally representing the surfaces of each of the two physical tooth models by a mesh of points in three dimensions, interpolating the meshes of points to produce interpolated surfaces to represent the...

20060127850 - Accurately producing a base for physical dental arch model: Systems and methods are disclosed to produce a dental base having sockets for receiving physical tooth models. The method includes receiving positional information of the sockets on the base, determining a relative movement between a laser and a base plate; emitting a laser beam from the laser to the base...

20060127853 - Base for physical dental arch model: A method produces a base for physical tooth models. The method includes providing one or more cast materials in a container, pressing the underside of the physical tooth models into the one or more cast materials to produce impressions in the one or more cast materials, and solidifying the one...

20060127851 - Fabricating a base compatible with physical tooth models: Systems and methods produce a physical base for receiving physical tooth models by receiving position information for the physical tooth models on the physical base and machining first features on a base plate in accordance with the position information to produce the physical base, wherein the first features are configured...

20060127854 - Image based dentition record digitization: Systems and methods are disclosed for generating a 3D model of an object using one or more cameras by: calibrating each camera; establishing a coordinate system and environment for the one or more cameras; registering one or more fiducials on the object; and capturing one or more images and constructing...

20060127852 - Image based orthodontic treatment viewing system: Systems and methods are disclosed for visualizing changes in a three dimensional (3D) model by receiving an initial 3D model for the patient; determining a target 3D model; and generating one or more intermediate 3D models by morphing one or more of the 3D models....

20060127855 - Preventing interference between tooth models: Systems and methods are disclosed to prevent interference between two physical tooth models in a physical dental arch model by acquiring the coordinates of a plurality of points on the surfaces of each of the two physical tooth models and digitally representing the surfaces of each of the two physical...

20060127860 - Producing a base for accurately receiving dental tooth models: Systems and method for producing a base configured to receive the physical tooth models by acquiring the coordinates of the physical tooth models in the physical dental arch model using a mechanical location device and determining the configurations of first features affixed to the physical tooth models. The method further...

20060127859 - Producing a physical toothmodel compatible with a physical dental arch model: Systems and methods for producing a physical tooth model includes receiving a negative impression of a patient's tooth in a casting chamber, pouring a casting material over the negative impression of the patient's tooth, solidifying the casting material wherein the casting material is attached to the lid of the casting...

20060127858 - Producing accurate base for a dental arch model: Systems and methods are disclosed for producing a base configured to receive physical tooth models includes acquiring the coordinates of the physical tooth models in the physical dental arch model using an optical location device. The method determines the configurations of first features affixed to the physical tooth models. The...

20060127857 - Producing non-interfering tooth models on a base: Systems and methods are disclosed that produce a physical dental arch model having at least two adjacent physical tooth models and a base configured to receive the physical tooth models. The method includes determining the positions and orientations of the two adjacent physical tooth models in the physical dental arch...

20060127861 - Laser apparatus for treating hard tissues and method for using the apparatus: A semiconductor laser apparatus combined with a chromophore and a method for using them in treating hard tissues, such as for example dental tissue, in which elements (3) for applying a chromophore in the area of the tissue to be treated are coupled to a semiconductor laser (4), elements for...

20060127862 - Teeth bleaching material and teeth bleaching method: It is a major object of the present invention to reduce the time required for bleaching discolored teeth by using a photocatalyst to thereby provide a bleaching material which is simple to use. The present invention relates to a bleaching material for bleaching teeth by applying a solution or paste...

20060115782 - Systems and methods for coating a dental appliance: A method for providing a dental appliance adapted to be worn by a patient by fabricating the dental appliance and coating one or more substances to the dental appliance. The coating substance can be used to strengthen the appliance during use or to deliver drugs....

20060115783 - Apparatus and method for curing a light curable adhesive: A method and device for directing ultra violet light for an ultra violet source for curing an adhesive composite....

20060115784 - Re-orientatable sample holder: A device is disclosed having a base, and a re-orientatable sample holder adapted on at least first and second sides to be repeatably (perhaps kinematically) mounted to the base wherein the relationship between the at least two surfaces when mounted on the base is known whereby when a sample is...

20060115785 - Systems and methods for intra-oral drug delivery: Systems and methods are disclosed for intra-oral delivery of drugs....

20060115787 - Methods of accessing a pulp chamber: A method of accessing a pulp chamber of a tooth without puncturing the furcation of the tooth includes providing an endodontic instrument having an elongated shaft with an upper end and a lower end, a stop fixed to the shaft at a distance between 6-8 mm from the lower end,...

20060115786 - Root canal treatment tool: A file A acting as a root canal treatment tool has a rod-shaped needle portion 1 that includes a working portion 4 of a predetermined length from a tip 3 and a shank 5 formed continuously to the working portion 4 and is composed of Ni—Ti alloy, wherein at a...

20060115788 - Dental hand instrument comprising components which can be displaced in relation to each other: The invention relates to a dental hand instrument comprising components which can be displaced in relation to each other. Said components are in contact with each other on the surface. Said dental hand instrument also comprises a lubricant for lubricating said components. At least one of the components comprises, on...

20060115789 - Self-approximating intraoral: A self-approximating intraoral isolation device to be used during dental procedures requiring a dry field of operation. The inventive device includes a fluid-resistant shell comprising a receptacle portion and an extruded region that receives the teeth through an opening in a sealing portion. Upon application of the forces of the...

20060115790 - Method and accessory for preparing a dental crown or bridge: A method for producing an abutment cap for use in the preparation of a dental crown or bridge. In one embodiment, data indicative of the abutment cap are inputted to a computer driven rapid prototyping device. The rapid prototyping device is then operated so as to produce the abutment cap...

20060115791 - Fixture for anchoring in jaw bone: To anchor a fixture in a jaw bone, the fixture is applied in a hole which is substantially smaller than the diameter of the fixture. The fixture has a front portion which from the point of view of diameter grows very much narrower and which is arranged with both a...

20060115793 - Method and system for providing feedback data useful in prosthodontic procedures associated with the intra oral cavity: Feedback data useful in prosthodontic procedures associated with the intra oral cavity is provided. First, a 3D numerical model of the target zone in the intra oral cavity is provided, and this is manipulated so as to extract particular data that may be useful in a particular procedure, for example...

20060115792 - Method for dental restoration and kit: Methods and kits of materials and supplies for forming a dental prosthesis by an injection molding process in situ in a patient's mouth so as to correct the imperfect teeth of the patient's dentition. The imperfect teeth are corrected by injection molding the dental prosthesis in situ in the patient's...

20060115794 - Continuous production crown core/crown making process: A system for continuous production of prosthodontic pieces such as crown cores, crowns or the like is provided. The system utilizes turning and milling on a live center CNC machine of a rod stock of material for making the pieces such as Bio-HIP Y-TZP (High Heat and Isostatic Pressure formed...

20060115795 - Multi-component dental appliances and a method for constructing the same: Dental appliances including multiple components and a system and method for constructing the same are disclosed herein. The dental components are designed to fit together to form the dental appliance. The components of the dental appliance are electronically modeled, printed, and pressed sequentially, separately, or as a unitary piece. Forming...